Tree (Ginkgo bilob a , Li). 113 
figures of mature leaves and short shoots, this author gives 
drawings of partially expanded leaves, and draws attention 
to the resemblance between the short shoots of the Maiden¬ 
hair tree and the stems of Cycads. Two years later a brief 
account of Ginkgo was given by Spach 1 , who speaks of the 
flowers being produced before the unfolding of the leaves. 
Robert Fortune 2 , in his ‘Wanderings in the Northern Provinces 
of China,’ writes: ‘ The only tree which I met with of very 
large size in this district (Shanghai) is the Salisburia adianti - 
folia , commonly called the Maidenhair tree, from the resem¬ 
blance its leaves bear to a Fern of that name. This is one 
of the plants which the Chinese are fond of dwarfing, and 
it is consequently often seen in that state in their gardens.’ 
In a later work Fortune 3 speaks of Salisburia as common in 
the neighbourhood of temples, and describes one temple 
where ‘ two noble trees guard the entrance, and one of them 
is the largest specimen of the kind I have met with ; its 
circumference about 6 ft. from the ground is 28 ft., and it 
probably reaches a height of 100 ft.’ In an important 
contribution by Eichler 4 on the Morphology of Gymnosperm 
flowers to Martius’ ‘ Flora Brasiliensis/ Ginkgo is placed in 
a separate tribe Salisburyeae. Henckel and Hochstetter 5 
in their ‘ Synopsis der Nadelholzer ’ speak of Ginkgo as 
reaching a height of 80-100 ft. ; these authors institute two 
garden varieties, var. variegata , characterized by the occur¬ 
rence of yellowish stripes or spots on the leaves, and var. 
macrophylla , with large lobed leaves. Nelson 6 , writing in 
1866 under the nom de plume ‘ Senilis/ refers to the Maiden¬ 
hair tree as Pterophyllus Salisburiensis or Salisbury’s allied 
Pine, and mentions the garden varieties aurea , argentea , 
laciniata , macrophylla , and microphylla . Carriere 7 considers 
the origin of Ginkgo obscure, and remarks that the tree is met 
1 Spach (’ 42 ), p. 298 ; vide also Goppert (’ 50 ), PI. XLIX. 
2 Fortune (’ 47 ), p. 129. 3 Ibid. (’68), p. 129. 
4 Eichler in Martius (’ 52 ), vol. iv, pp. 409 and 445 ; vide also Saporta (’ 84 ), 
p. 252. 
5 Henckel and Hochstetter (’ 65 ), p. 373. 6 Nelson (’66), p. 163. 
7 Carriere (’ 67 ), p. 712. 
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